Now · May 7 – Jun 5, 2026

What I’mbuilding.

My Journey from full-stack engineer to AI Engineer. Apps, agents, MCP servers — and the eval harnesses, cost tracking, and fallback patterns that decide whether any of it holds up in production. This page is the live record of that month.

Builds

1 of 2 shipped

Site rebrand & sprint tracker

shipped

Rebuilt the site as 'AI Engineer — apps & agents' with editorial typography, a manual dark/light toggle, and this /now page as a public sprint tracker. Services paused for 30 days while the proof gets built. Foundation for everything else this month.

Next.js 16Tailwind v4next-themesInstrument SerifOpenPanel

Repo + demo URL coming soon.

Demo A — Production-grade AI app with evals

in progress

A small domain-specific assistant built on the Anthropic SDK and the Vercel AI SDK. Tool calling, streaming, graceful cancellation, and a real eval harness that runs in CI. The point is to show what 'production-grade' actually means — not a tutorial demo.

Anthropic SDKVercel AI SDK v6PromptfooNext.jsPostgres + pgvector

Repo + demo URL coming soon.

Writing

1 of 2 on the blog

I built an MCP server in a weekend — here's what production-grade actually means

in progress

The gap between an MCP demo and an MCP server you'd hand to a paying user. Auth, error handling, observability, the unglamorous parts.

Learning

0 of 3 in muscle memory

  • Anthropic SDK — prompt caching with cache_control
  • Anthropic SDK — tool use with native tool_choice
  • MCP — implement a server from scratch

Get the AI Engineer dispatch.

New long-form post + the build I shipped that week. No filler, no roundups.

Building something where I could help?

Public services come back next month. In the meantime, intro chats are open and free.